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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft May Not Be Near Edge of Solar System after All [Updated]
Side Note: So a few days ago we had many news outlets and blogs writing about Voyager’s entry into interstellar space (a huge technological feat for mankind), but a new finding published in a September issue of Nature indicates that this is far from the truth.
In an email, Decker notes that the Nature paper was based on data collected before February 2012 and that newer observations further complicate the question of when Voyager 1 will leave the heliosphere and enter interstellar space.
“I should point out that data received from Voyager 1 within the past two months show very interesting variations in the numbers of charged particles that enter our heliosphere from the interstellar medium and in the number that leave our heliosphere and enter the interstellar medium,” Decker notes. “Whether these very new data are another feature of the broad transition region that Voyager 1 has been in for the past two years, or a new region or boundary of the heliosphere, remains to be seen.”
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft May Not Be Near Edge of Solar System after All [Updated]
Side Note: So a few days ago we had many news outlets and blogs writing about Voyager’s entry into interstellar space (a huge technological feat for mankind), but a new finding published in a September issue of Nature indicates that this is far from the truth.
In an email, Decker notes that the Nature paper was based on data collected before February 2012 and that newer observations further complicate the question of when Voyager 1 will leave the heliosphere and enter interstellar space.
“I should point out that data received from Voyager 1 within the past two months show very interesting variations in the numbers of charged particles that enter our heliosphere from the interstellar medium and in the number that leave our heliosphere and enter the interstellar medium,” Decker notes. “Whether these very new data are another feature of the broad transition region that Voyager 1 has been in for the past two years, or a new region or boundary of the heliosphere, remains to be seen.”
